1. Extracting spatial information from temporal odor patterns: insights from insects.
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Szyszka P, Emonet T, and Edwards TL
- Subjects
- Animals, Smell, Wind, Odorants, Insecta
- Abstract
Extracting spatial information from temporal stimulus patterns is essential for sensory perception (e.g. visual motion direction detection or concurrent sound segregation), but this process remains understudied in olfaction. Animals rely on olfaction to locate resources and dangers. In open environments, where odors are dispersed by turbulent wind, detection of wind direction seems crucial for odor source localization. However, recent studies showed that insects can extract spatial information from the odor stimulus itself, independently from sensing wind direction. This remarkable ability is achieved by detecting the fine-scale temporal pattern of odor encounters, which contains information about the location and size of an odor source, and the distance between different odor sources., Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare no conflict of interest., (Copyright © 2023 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
- Published
- 2023
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